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A wide range of Irish comedy, drama and dance acts will perform across the Edinburgh Festival Fringe line-up, including
Felicia Olusanya, aka FeliSpeaks, has created a show with thisispopbaby for the Dublin Fringe, exploring what it is like to grow up as a ‘queer black Irish midlands culchie’
Vietnamese-Irish-American actor and writer Brigid Leahy moved from Los Angeles, California, to Dublin in 2014 to study at Trinity College
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Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be
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Former head of Dublin Fringe Festival will take over from Willie White as artistic director and chief executive in February 2025
This year’s festival, which celebrated 30 years, hosted 74 events, 520 performances in 29 venues across the city involving more than 500 artists
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Sisters Megan and Shannon Haly star in this dizzying coming-of-age rollercoaster ride
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Krishna Istha’s radical performance is part of a trans couple’s real-life journey to start a family
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Lianne O’Hara shines as Camilla, who is single and wants a baby, in all of her fury, heartache and scorn
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Aoife Sweeney O’Connor, an impressive raconteur, intersperses personal narrative with confidently warbled original songs
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The comedian’s guided tour of the past few years of his life features musical ditties by way of sombre reflection
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Shane Daniel Byrne’s swirling new stand-up show riffs on the milestones of his first year as a full-time comic
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The Galway singer dedicates a show whose weight is lost on nobody to sharing other people’s stories
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Erin McGathy delivers a quadruple threat of singing, wicked comic chops, costume changes and interpretive writhing
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: You’d barely notice the hour pass as TikTok breakout star takes his audience on a witty journey from childhood dreams and identity dilemmas to his later struggles
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Carmel Winters’s artful tale also combines with Stephen Warbeck’s evocative score and Sarah Jane Shiels’s clever lighting
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The composer’s song cycle sets out to retune our ‘relationship with the earth at this time of climate crisis’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The Future Is on the Way is followed by John Scott’s simultaneously entertaining and meditative Actions (Now)
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In aiming to unsettle, Joy Nesbitt’s satire relies on less plausible devices
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cox jests about being a superstar, but, in his quick-witted humour and candid authenticity, he already is
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s delivery makes traumatic revelations come across as funnily offbeat
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Ireland’s growing improv scene will teach you how to let go and play around
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Hannah Gumbrielle’s storytelling is acrobatic as she is in this show about her lymphoma diagnosis and treatment
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinic
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Anna Newell’s immersive dance performance for babies creates a beautiful, deeply rewarding experience
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Dead Centre’s new production features remarkable performances from six people living with long-term illness
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The ‘great reset’ provides the backdrop for an enigmatic show brought to life by Stephanie Dufresne and Alex O’Neill
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